Subject: Re: double line bug & nautical miles
Date: Nov 24, 2001 @ 05:52
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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> > > > west of wlong 124d 05m 00s 00000 presumably nad83man i sure would have thought so until you requestioned it but maybe i should & will recheck the legal text tomorrow
>
> > Grant Hutchison wrote:
> > > What latitude? And are we talking west-along-that-parallel or
> > > west-from-there-along-the-great-circle?
>
> orc@o... wrote:
> > dyou mean you need to know the freakin latitude too well of course ahem
> > it is n46d15m precisely to as many digits of zero as you like
>
> So it's west-along-that-parallel then?
>oh no not more great circle explaining
> > & i had thought we were absolutely talking due west here rather than
> > loxodrome due west if that is what you mean [...]
>
> A loxodrome is a curve which always cuts the lines of longitude
> at the same angle (and is therefore straight on a Mercator map).
> That means a line of latitude is a loxodrome.
>
> Does "great circle" need explaining?